House on north side of Bergen (btwn Vanderbilt/Underhill)

It's gone!

Any info on this?

huh got a house number?

no house number anymore!

brooklynleather wrote: no house number anymore!

Bingo.

It's the house that was just in from the corner of Vanderbilt and and Bergen, to the east of the artists studios.

That is the house that lulusmom found the kitten. There was an older woman who lived there forever. I know she always lived there (with an aunt or mother) and had some form of mental disability. As she got older it was harder and harder for her to take care of herself and I think her family has moved her into an assisted living facility.

It went down fast!

I think it was 659 Bergen and that my landlord just sold it. According to the DOB site it looks like it was torn down to put up another ugly ass new building.

http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/JobDetailsServlet?requestid=2&allisn=0001324706&allboroughname=&allnumbhous=&allstrt=

And here's the architects website:

http://www.kfarchitect.com/

I really hope I'm wrong about this. I absolutely cannot stand these new buildings, I think they're boxy and lacking in character. I always think that someone was playing with their kids Legos when they came up with the designs.

I just took a look at the architect's portfolio, why did Canada get the nicer buildings while NY is stuck with these cookie-cutter blocky ones? These buildings all look alike to me, no matter who the architect is.

Here's a link to the developer's website with a rendering of the building proposed for this site: http://www.oreinternational.com/cs_bergen.php

Yeah, that thing fits in really well in "a neighborhood of classic Brooklyn brownstones". :?

omg, not another one. The studio building is mine, and BTW, we have a recent, major influx of homeless bums now, living and drinking on the sidewalk in front of the construction lot, right next to our building, and also across the street in front of the other ugly building going up. Diversity is charming, isn't it?

i happen to like modern buildings. I like the renderings.

/runs

sje wrote: omg, not another one. The studio building is mine, and BTW, we have a recent, major influx of homeless bums now, living and drinking on the sidewalk in front of the construction lot, right next to our building, and also across the street in front of the other ugly building going up. Diversity is charming, isn't it?

get a anti bum spray!!

install sprinklers and watch bums run away. nm it would turn into a public shower.

I actually don't mind the look of the building in the rendering. But wtf, with "The desirability of Park Slope, just a few blocks away, has made [Prospect Heights] the fourth most exclusive in Brooklyn." I wonder how exactly they arrived at that figure...

"Fourth most exclusive". Wow, y'all will have to beat those hipsters off of you with a stick.

what a load of PR horseshit.

Zombie thread!

6 years later, the building is complete, but the condo owners can't close on their units

photo and article: http://www.brownstoner.com/blog/2013/07/prospect-heights-building-in-limbo-finally-gets-c-of-o-but-buyers-still-cant-close/

I guess they can still rent some of that space out because there is a gym on the first floor that has been open for a few weeks now.

It would certainly suck to be stuck in limbo since 2010.